for us nocturnal mners, could you possibly come up with a 'save post' feature....

[MrsShrekTheThird]

during your 2am offline thingy, backup or eating biscuits or whatever you get up to that shuts the site for a couple of minutes, could you possibly replace "post" with "save" so that morons like me don't get caught time after time with writing a thoughtful or long post and then losing the bloody lot when the "offline" message turns up instead?

I am quite sure this should deter me from posting at 2am but you can't teach old dogs new tricks and I must be thick never seem to learn

but it is highly annoying, drives me crazy

sometimes, I have to talk to DH for 15mins

that's showing off now penguin
no need to rub it in, now

At 2am I am too pissed tirerd to remember what I put so the magic is gone, or the rambles of someone who should be in bed . Come on MN help us out!!

Blimey penguin I'd never go that far..OH always asleep by then..heaven forbid a real conversation!

Penguin, you're being almost as annoying as the shut down! I mean, naturally we're very happy for you that your back button works, but ours doesn't and that is FAAAAAR more important.
so there. :P

If it helps madhatters, DH get annoyed with talking to him as it interferes with him cooking dinner

wot Thumb says. :P

I thought it was 3am UK time anyway

twas 2am when it last crashed on my amazingly errudite post - hence the thread being started at 2:07

oh it is 3am UK time; or thereabouts. It used to be regularly 3:15 but it's been sneaking around, anything from 3am onwards now. It's shut down on me at 3:03 before now.

you're right. We had a period where our clocks changed a few weeks before the UK ones.

But just to make life interesting, there is often a glitch at exactly 2am. momentary, but enough to stuff a post.

no hang on, I did think it was 3

but what a cheek, moving around the shut down time like that. We're far too sensitive for that kind of monkey business.

Rachel - there was a thread in site stuff about this a few weeks ago. I think it was possibly damian looking into it??

and multiple shutdowns? Well just WHO do they think they are?

penguin even at dinner time a full convo is not an option..more along the lines of me shouting at the kids to stop arguing (sp?) about where they are sitting on OH (helpfully) saying he will eat alone if they don't stop! Thankfully they are all asleep at this time of night and I can mess about have me time!

Chipping, you mean I haven't come up with a real live original idea then
But then again, if two of us geniuses / geniiiiiiiiii have come up with it then it must be absolutely necessary. Obviously.

Sorry MrsShrek - no, we all already whinge about it A LOT!

... and yes, it is necessary and was supposedly being dealt with :)

Oh it all got VERY technical - orbited RIGHT over my head!!

Do keep posting if you think this would vastly improve your life and we'll get back to you.

Well it would certainly save my blood pressure. At work we get a five minute warning to save and restart if we want to continue working to remind us to go home. Very useful.

there have been loads of threads - i think this is the first time i've seen a response though - although chipping seems to think there was a response a while back? i must have missed that one - normally i do try to jump on the bandwagon and moan as it's just after kid's bedtime here as well. (and dh is cooking the dinner - perfect time to mn)

i do get that it's quietest in the uk then and they do need to do a back-up or whatever, but just a warning would be ever so ever so appreciated.

I didn't see the previous threads. I am now off to search site stuff to see what was said...

me too

There was definitely a response - I suggested some method of "grabbing" the submitted message and holding onto it, then submitting it when the system resumed but that was too clever awkward because they shut down the databases I assume